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35+ years in IT dealing with Microsoft (MCSE and Novell CNE) and all their crap! I will never use a Windows pc again for home or hobby, I am Linux and Mac 100%, if in the rare occasion I need Windows I have a VM on my Linux machine.

The chip creates the com port on the PC and therefore will require drivers. The two main chips are FTDI and Prolific. The one you showed is the Prolific and requires drivers to be loaded, the FTDI drivers are built into Windows. Once you get the correct drivers loaded you should be able to make...

I don't own any but from what I have read the last good 29 was the Philippine made side mike model. I am sure others will add on here.

Either way, work or not it's a good deal if for nothing else the parts.

I have been watching this for a day or so.

ICOM 7000

No it's the same, that has been the Cobra HQ since the early 70s. I just think the CB biz is not big for them anymore.

The world HQ of Cobra, its about 10 miles north of me. Stopped there once and everything was about radar detectors, FRS, and commercial radios but no CB.

Thanks, I am finding I have a strong distaste for color displays on the Chinese stuff as I have yet to see one that you can easily read in daylight. Currently, I have 17 different HTs so it's not a single manufacturer issue (yes it probably is in reality).

I remember those.

Based on the photos here the display looks very dim like the typical Baofeng ones. Is it that dim? The mic location is a stupid move on there part. At $75 it seems to be over priced, do you have that feeling as well?

Please be aware the post you responded to is 15 years old

Back in the day I was Unit-997 on SSB.

Never said it didn't work, I have run FM on 10 many times. Its cute on 11 meters because its new and a lot of ops have never used it and know very little about it.

Maybe but honestly FM is cute on 11 meters but SSB is in my opinion still the most useful. If they want to run AM get a 29..:-)

At $589 its in my opinion a complete waste of money. They are much better radios that will run circles around this one. One that comes to mind is the ICOM 718.

Yes pick a color but honestly it's a not reinventing the wheel type of thing.

Not that I will ever buy one, but the look is exactly what I like about it. It looks like an actual radio, not a computer in a box with a mic.

Interesting..